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This bold cinematic experience takes viewers on a magical adventure across the greatest, yet least known parts of our planet – our oceans.

Since The Blue Planet aired in 2001, our understanding of life beneath the waves has completely changed. Travelling from the icy polar seas to the vibrant blues of the coral atolls, Blue Planet II shares these astonishing new discoveries.

In recent years, our knowledge of the natural world and what goes on in our Ocean has been transformed by each stunning wildlife documentary from David Attenborough. Blue Planet II uses cutting-edge breakthroughs in science and technology to explore new worlds, reveals astonishing creatures and extraordinary new animal behaviours. As we journey through our deep seas, coral reefs, open ocean, green seas and coasts we share these extraordinary new discoveries. But we now know that ocean health is under threat. Never has there been a more crucial time to explore our remotest seas, and to examine what the future will hold for our blue planet.

Narrated by David Attenborough

Episodes:

Episode 1 - One Ocean

Episode 2 - The Deep

Episode 3 - Coral Reefs

Episode 4 - Big Blue

Episode 5 - Green Seas

Episode 6 - Coasts

Episode 7 - Our Blue Planet

Blue Planet II Diaries can be found on the Blu-ray Discs, these were filmed in HD only.

✔ ULTRA HD BLU-RAY WITH HDR FEATURES:

✔ RESOLUTION - FOUR TIMES SHARPER THAN HD

✔ HDR (HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE) BRILLIANT BRIGHTS, DEEPEST DARKS

✔ COLOUR - WIDER COLOUR SPECTRUM

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Episodes

One Ocean

One Ocean takes us on a journey from the intense heat of the tropics to our planet’s frozen poles. Life has spread to almost every part of the oceans, but there are many different worlds here, and each presents unique challenges.

The Deep

The Deep takes us on an epic journey into the unknown, a world of crushing pressure, brutal cold and utter darkness. It’s the largest living space on our planet; and today, scientists think there’s more life here than anywhere else on Earth. This is our final frontier.

Coral Reefs

Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine species. Survival in these undersea mega-cities is a challenge with many different solutions.

Green Seas

Coasts

At the coast, two worlds collide. Coasts is the story of how our Blue Planet’s wildlife survives in this ever changing world. It’s a roller-coaster ride of heart stopping action and epic drama, with characters from beautiful to bizarre.

Our Blue Planet

Blue Planet II explores parts of the ocean that nobody has ever visited, encountered extraordinary animals, and discovered new insights into life beneath the waves. In Our Blue Planet, Sir David Attenborough examines the impact of human life on life in the ocean.

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One of the most ambitious nature series ever undertaken, and it shows. Over four years in the making, the world’s five oceans explored, the most sophisticated hi-tech photography equipment used, thousands of man-hours and millions of pounds invested in 125 expeditions and 4,000 dives. Along with this, the beautiful haunting music of Hans Zimmer and Radiohead in collaboration, as well as the wise, elegiac voice of Sir David Attenborough who speaks in near-lament at what we are doing to the oceans with our plastic junk, carbon effluence and industrial-scale overfishing. If anything, the world’s beautiful coral reefs act as a marker of the health of our planet and civilisation. If they go, if we manage to kill them off with rising ocean temperatures and polluted, acidic seas, maybe they constitute the suicide note we are unconsciously writing to the world. This is the tone of the programme: so much beauty and variety, so much knowledge and intelligence, yet between them so much fragility and thoughtless destruction. It’s as if Sir David is beseeching us to grow up and become mature and responsible adults, leaving our reckless teen years behind. Here is a vivid portrait of all the underwater beauty and diversity we stand to lose if we do not change our way of thinking and living.

But apart from morality tale, it’s also a great education, punctuated by simple facts and stats. For instance, the landmass of Earth makes up only 30% of our planet’s surface. 97% of all water on Earth is contained in the oceans. The world’s greatest wilderness — the open ocean or Big Blue — covers 50% of Earth’s surface, the marine equivalent of a desert. In it, Sir David says, there’s nowhere to hide and little to eat. 90% of all fish live in the so-called twilight zone where light from the sun begins to fade at a depth of 200 metres. This zone extends to a depth of 1,000 metres, thereafter called the midnight zone, which is pitch black. How do animals navigate there in the dark? With their own lights, which are wild, weird, spooky, and colourful like flashing disco and strobe lights. Dancing at the bottom of the oceans? Of course. Didn’t you know God has a sense of humour?

Other facts and assertions. We know more about the surface of Mars than we do about the geology, chemistry and biology of our ocean floors. The chemicals of life were first mixed in the hothouse kitchen at the centre of our planet then released through thermal vents into the oceans. Life most likely began at the interface of these ocean vents and Earth’s interior. One day our technology may allow us to confirm this, as we know some of the moons of Jupiter (Ganymede and Callisto) and Saturn (Titan and Mimas) have oceans as well, and we also know the laws of physics are universal, equal, unequivocal. Why should life only exist on Earth? In all probability it does not. Our home, our planet, is special and precious, but that doesn’t mean it’s unique. This should cheer us. At least it cheers me.

A few spoiler examples of extraordinary animal behaviour in the oceans of Earth follow, so please stop reading if you’d rather not know (though it’s just a sampler list with many other examples omitted).

• Dolphins in South Africa ride and surf the crests of huge waves for the sheer joy, pleasure and fun of it. No kidding!

• Other dolphins and whales congregate and communicate in order to coordinate large underwater hunting pacts and packs.

• A fish in Australia has worked out the dynamics of cause and effect, clearly seeing into the future through its logic. He smashes the sturdy shells of clams against hard rock or coral to get at the soft, juicy, tasty bits inside. He is clumsy but persistent, keeping his eyes on the prize. Like us and chimpanzees, he is a toolmaker.

• Another fish of the oceanic deep lives in the midnight zone. His skull is clear and luminescent. You can see right through it and so can he. Why? Better to spot prey (and predators) above him without turning over to look. Easier just to peer right up through your skull to examine the world. Given enough time to tinker and experiment, evolution by natural selection always arrives at ingenious ways in which to survive and thrive.

There are seven episodes in the series, each an hour in length:

One OceanThe DeepCoral ReefsBig BlueGreen SeasCoastsOur Blue Planet

The final episode (Our Blue Planet) is the most sobering, as it details what is happening to the planet and its oceans and what must be done to limit or halt the destruction. Less than 1% of our international waters are protected, and as Sir David says:

“The creation of marine reserves is vital if we’re to safeguard the future of many ocean creatures.”

In the last three years over two-thirds of the world’s coral reefs are thought to have suffered from rises in ocean temperatures. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolved in seawater forms carbonic acid which destroys the calcium carbonate shells of sea creatures as well as coral reefs. Our cars, jet aircraft and especially our factories dump millions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere as if the planet had an infinite capacity to absorb this noxious chemical compound. Homo sapiens sits in the dock of some celestial courtroom in my imagination, guilty as charged for ruining his planet. The judge shows no mercy, the prisoner dragged away in chains to serve out his sentence with extreme finality, that sentence being extinction.

But not all is lost, including hope. As more knowledge accumulates, the better we understand and are better equipped to logistically take well-informed, intelligent action. The final episode highlights local success stories around the globe and the work of dedicated people in educating others to make a difference. If one thinks this is pie in the sky, then they are just not trying or caring enough to want to try. It all begins at home with the choices you make in daily life: recycling, bicycling instead of driving, less flying, less needless consumption, no plastic shopping bags. This is true whether many in the world want to believe it or not. You are responsible for your own carbon footprint.

I have never before seen underwater photography as clear, vivid, colourful and beautiful as this. I should probably re-watch the entire series in the bath for full immersion sensation. As it is, even on the settee, I feel as though I am snorkelling above coral reefs. Wondrous experience. I shouldn’t be able to imagine anyone disparaging this series, though there will always be nitpicking malcontents impossible to please. Thankfully, these form a slender minority here. The series currently has an 83% 5-star rating at amazon.co.uk, and my review may push it closer to 84%.

I’m thankful Sir David is still living (now aged 91) and working. No retirement for some! Thankful too for the professionalism and commitment of the BBC in commissioning the series. When I saw Blue Planet over ten years ago I thought to myself:

“That’s it. They’ve gone all out. This series can’t be bettered.”

But I was wrong. Very wrong. The current series is even greater. I would even say greater by far. The technological development in underwater photographic technology over the past dozen years has been truly phenomenal. The clarity of the images, even at 11,000 metres deep in the Mariana Trench (the deepest gash in the surface of the earth), is astonishing. If I didn’t know better, I would think I was looking at CGI — but we are not in this series.

A dozen years ago I was in the Cook Islands and French Polynesia, visiting Tahiti, Mo’orea and Bora Bora, among other beautiful islands and atolls. What I saw snorkelling and scuba diving underwater there with my own eyes I now see reproduced here almost perfectly. I was joking about the bath, but maybe it’s not such a bad idea (even if it is). Imagine that — getting electrocuted by the BBC! Anyway, full immersion with this series. You will not see better underwater photography anywhere else anytime soon.

Amazing. I bought this partly because I thought it would be good for my young kids to watch, partly to have some nice 4K content for my new 4K screen. I'm embarrassed that I thought as a middle aged person I've seen lots of nature documentaries about the ocean, going back to Jacques Cousteau films in the 70s, and wouldn't have much to learn. This is fantastic viewing, both photographically and learning. If you have the slightest interest in the Ocean and nature, buy the best version (4k vs bluray vs DVD) you can view.

Having dived many times and regarded it to be a privilege to be able to see the wildlife underwater, this series reveals more of the secrets of that part of the planet. By using the latest discoveries made by research and stunning photography, all these programmes are absorbing to watch.and the commentary by Sir David Attenborough is well thought out to complement the filming. This Blu-Ray set is outstanding in its variety of scope and detail and deserves repeated viewings. The only criticism i have is about the music that turns the action being filmed into a drama. But this is a minor point and does not warrant taking off a stat from this wonderful and brilliant five star series. .

This is for the 4k version.Being technologically challenged, I had problems with Planet Earth 2 having plugged the connector into the wrong inlet on the AV receiver, so for a year I was watching upscaled HD on the blu ray player rather than glorious 4k (still very good, by the way). Having corrected that, the picture and sound on the new Blue Planet 2 disks seemed excellent but not quite with the pop I would have expected. I finally figured out a setting I had missed on the Samsung TV and now I can report that he mists have cleared and this series is a visual and aural treat, considering so much of it is obviously filmed underwater. It is also excellent value with so many episodes to watch. With the home theatre sound system properly adjusted, it sounds as if I have a serious water leak in the living room.The sex-changing fish with the lumpy head has a starring role, along with the greedy sea cucumber and the clam-busting denizen of the deep. Magnificent. More 4k nature documentaries please, BBC.

You already know this, but here it goes again. .. this series is absolutely stunning. It's unbelievable how good this 4k HDR image is on an Oled tv (LG B6). The filmmakers are absolutely due their praise because what we see on screen sometimes had many months of patient filming and keeping that in mind makes the series even more compelling. Yes there was some controversy with the plastics part but it helped with the message.